ARIA and ISSUE-54

Running a search for 'aria' in subjects sent to www-tag:
http://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/search?keywords=aria&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=&index-grp=Public__FULL&index-type=t&type-index=www-tag
picks up the messages which are on this part of Tag Soup.
This issue is urgent for the WAI-PF group.  I'm sending these pointers  
to get the tracker to connect the issue to these mails.

(Michael, please use the ISSUE-54 tag in the subject in relation to  
this)
Issue 54:  http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/54


1. Re: State and Status of WAI-ARIA approach to host-language  
embedding (score: 209) (8,818 bytes)
Author: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008  
15:01:49 -0400 List: Public/www-tag
In-Reply-To: <47D9621B.3090209@w3.org> References: 1 2 3 4
Henri Sivonen and Simon Pieters contributed the discussion quoted  
below, that I can't improve upon. Note in particular that there are  
specification-based differences in the behavior. Yes, it's a diff
2. Re: State and Status of WAI-ARIA approach to host-language  
embedding (score: 152) (1,967 bytes)
Author: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008  
12:19:23 -0500 List: Public/www-tag
In-Reply-To: <332E3DF8-B232-4BA6-ADA0-C1123C41D1CA@IEEE.org>  
References: 1 2 3
Would you please elaborate? preferably in the form of test cases? i.e.  
specific example documents? -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
3. Re: State and Status of WAI-ARIA approach to host-language  
embedding (score: 333) (8,223 bytes)
Author: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008  
09:54:26 -0500 List: Public/www-tag
In-Reply-To: <53B19371-16E0-4881-95FC-4530F99883AA@w3.org> References:  
1 2
Tim, thanks for giving us this chance to clear up what is actually  
going on. We look forward to further discussion with the TAG at their  
convenience should this be required. It is not a reinvention o
4. Re: State and Status of WAI-ARIA approach to host-language  
embedding (score: 304) (6,075 bytes)
Author: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008  
14:26:52 -0800 List: Public/www-tag
In-Reply-To: <7B38584E-7F85-44C8-8FF7-591653451CC0@IEEE.org>  
References: 1
Very much in summary, some of the feedback from th TAG has been along  
the following lines - The idea of effectively using aria- s a sort  
namespace prefix in has issues -- it is reinvention of the nam
5. State and Status of WAI-ARIA approach to host-language embedding  
(score: 266) (5,186 bytes)
Author: Al Gilman <Alfred.S.Gilman@IEEE.org>, Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008  
00:06:31 +0100 List: Public/www-tag
** introduction WAI-ARIA is an aspect or facet of web markup that is  
not a standalone format but a module of markup-practice-maintenance  
that is targeted to be integrated into multiple host languages